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I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things.

One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well.

Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.

Picture of Diwali lamps and "bright wishes for a happy Diwali"

Happy Diwali to those who celebrate!

Foul. In box. PK.

Yuuuuuuuuup.

And the replay makes that very clear.

Yes and yes.

And I ALWAYS knew he was going to score.
Obvs.

Oooorrrrrr
🤣🤣

Yep

Hey, they just apologized...

🙄

#COYG

But also

#nokings

It's now a theory course...

😓

I recall when the news came out about Andrian Peterson and his abuse of his kid(s?).
Made the mistake of reading the comments on ESPN at the time. WAY too many "I was hit as a kid, and I'm fine. What's the problem?"

Ffs...

Chart shows three different ways to divide 50 people into 5 districts. One shows perfect representation, another a compact but unfair method and a third approach is neither compact nor fair.

How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...

Opinion | Something Is Stirring in Christian America, and It’s Making Me Nervous

1. Incredibly pedantic context: French refers to the "Christian church in America" here.

But as the piece eventually makes clear, he's talking primarily about *evangelicalism.*

For the unaware: Evangelicals often refer to "Christians" but mean *their* tradition. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

F'n yikes

YouTube video by Jerky Boys - Topic Insulator Job

Can't help but be reminded of this...

youtu.be/K2yjTNXV5Co?...

Hardback copy of my book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport. The cover is peach in color, with four different depictions of Black women playing various sports with different hair types.

My first book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, came out this March with Rutgers University Press. Since then I've given talks in Boston, Urbana-Champaign, Charlotte and most recently Memphis. /1

Huh.

You know what I don't see in this report?

Literally any mention by administration officials of the government taking in refugees fleeing religious persecution — a subgroup some conservatives have long championed.

Report: NY Young Republicans implicated in racist chat threads Politico obtained text threads that had racist, antisemitic, and homophobic language.

Thread: Some good local public radio coverage of Young Republicans from various states involved in the racist antisemitic Telegram chat first outed by Politico. Here's NY 1/ www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/5...

Research participants wanted!!

Meet David M. Perry, our new contributing columnist focused on history, disabilities and education He moved back to Minnesota because it is a state that believes in serving the public good. But, he writes, Minnesota is not always at its best.

I was asked to write a column about my columns, which I found an embarrassing experience. But ... I took the chance to wax rhapsodic about the value of studying the humanities. So that's nice.

RETWEET TO ENTER a drawing for 1 of 5 copies. Esp looking for grad student entries by 10/17.

Trying to get the word out about the 8th edition of Religion in Sociological Perspective with new co-author @jh1791.bsky.social, published by @sagepub.com

Never. Happened.

/s

Why Religious Studies Is in Trouble As colleges plan to make cuts, departments in this field are finding themselves on the chopping block.

Colleges are cutting many types of departments, but religious studies in particular keeps ending up on lists of doomed programs. I looked into why: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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Come learn Coptic! In partnership with the Religion Department, I developed a two-part introduction to Coptic via close study of the Coptic Gospel of Thomas. Come learn about ancient languages and sayings of Jesus!

Part 1: Starts Oct. 27 | Part 2: Jan. 5

www.religiondepartment.com/learning-cop...

I would make that #2 in a list of three.
#1: stay alive (aided by #2)
#3: if successful with 1 and 2, continue to make money.

Everything else derives from those.

That market is well beyond it's normal absurdity, as you know.

+1

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."